CHAPTER 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

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Across
  1. 5. is the whole of a society’s knowledge, beliefs, technology, and practices, and human cultural changes have had profound effects on the earth.
  2. 6. can be replenished through natural processes as long as it is not used up faster than it is renewed.
  3. 9. The highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitely without reducing its available supply.
  4. 10. are single, identifiable sources.
  5. 11. are harmful materials that can be broken down by natural processes.
  6. 13. are dispersed and often difficult to identify.
  7. 16. an interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment of living and nonliving things.
  8. 17. which are our beliefs about what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment.
  9. 19. study of how organisms interact with one another and with their nonliving environment.
  10. 22. the annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and domestic, operating within a country.
  11. 23. is the ability of the earth’s various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.
  12. 24. competition for limited resources among different species places a limit on how much their populations can grow.
Down
  1. 1. are materials and energy in nature that are essential or useful to humans.
  2. 2. the amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply the people in a particular country or area with resources and to absorb and recycle the wastes and pollution produced by such resource use.
  3. 3. energy from the sun.
  4. 4. a group of organisms with distinctive traits and, for sexually reproducing organisms, can mate and produce fertile offspring.
  5. 7. the astounding variety of different organisms, the genes they contain, the ecosystems in which they exist, and the natural services they provide have yielded countless ways for life to adapt to changing environmental conditions throughout the earth’s history.
  6. 8. study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
  7. 10. occurs when people are unable to meet their basic needs for adequate food, water, shelter, health, and education.
  8. 12. is a set of assumptions and values reflecting how you think the world works and what you think your role in the world should be.
  9. 14. is anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants.
  10. 15. involves collecting waste materials and processing them into new materials.
  11. 18. is any in the environment that is harmful to the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms.
  12. 20. is using a resource over and over in the same form.
  13. 21. is a set of organisms interacting with one another and with their environment of nonliving matter and energy within a defined area or volume.